The faerie queene : Disposed into twelue bookes, fashioning XII. morall vertues

by: Spenser, Edmund, 1552?-1599; Wolfe, John, d. 1601, printer; Ponsonby, William, 1546?-1604, publisher

Publication date: 1596

Publisher: London : Printed [by Richard Field] for VVilliam Ponsonbie

Collection: americana

Digitizing sponsor: University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

Contributor: University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

Language: English

Volume: 2

In verse

Printer's name from STC

"The second part of The faerie queene" has separate dated title page, pagination, and register

This edition omits the sonnets at the end of the 1590 edition

Signatures: A-2O A-2I 2K

Printer's mark on title pages ("An cho ra spei"); head-, tail-pieces; initials

IUA11685 v.1: inscriptions in ink on t.p.; "Ex Dono Anthony. May. Armigerj Farra 1628"; "Solub un ..."; "From Glister pipes and doctors whistles"

IUA11685 v.1: inscription in ink on final page (illegible)

IUA11685 v.2: in ink at imprint date on t.p.: "1813 ; 217"

IUA11685 v.2: red wax seal inside front cover

IUA11686 v.2: inscriptions in ink on t.p. (some illegible); "J Joh"; "fs man ..."; "d.g."

Baldwin 2923e and Baldwin 2923g: Imperfect; all of part 1, t.p. for part 2 and fols. B4 and B5 lacking in both copies; Baldwin 2923e also lacks fol. Dd6

Baldwin 2923g: Fols. Hh6-Kk4 mutilated; text loss on multiple leaves

Baldwin 2923g: Autograph on rear flyleaf recto: "Josiah Prott"

STC (2nd ed.)

ESTC

Notes

minimal margins on headings, running off edge of page; pages skewed
back cover detached, front cover barely attached.
pagination eccentricities: number p2, then skips to p5, no apparent missing text; 366, 367 numbered twice, text is not duplicated.